Find out more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in online education technology have empowered people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this expanding desire for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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